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The Proscenium Arch is critical to a theatre. It is the frontispiece of the stage and stands proudly welcoming the theatre’s guests before and after each spectacle. It is also critical in the evolution of the theatre in that from the Teatro Farnese onwards, we have a record of it literally framing the action on the stage.
Today, we are excited to share our latest CGI of the Teatro San Cassiano (credit again to our great friends and CGI partners at Secchi Smith and of course to Jon Greenfield who again collaborated with Paul Atkin, Stefano Patuzzi and Roberta Pellegriti).
As we noted on the release of our first image (the first historically-informed reimaging of the Teatro San Cassiano of 1637 in history), there were at that point unreconciled concerns over the Proscenium Arch, on which we had already begun working. This new image shows the fruits of our research, correcting errors on the Composite columns, the composition of the arch and by a first attempt at improving the detail of the façade of the arch itself: here incorporating garlands and theatre masks in the lower half. Indeed, the image of the masks comes directly from the Teatro San Cassiano itself and from the mask we think was above the entrance come its demolition in 1812. The naturally the question is whether the stone mask in question was there in 1637: our research goes on. This will not be the final Proscenium Arch, but it does take us a step closer to reconstructing the original Teatro San Cassiano of 1637.
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